| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Rocky IV | $11,778,568 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | United Artists | - | false |
| 2 | King Solomon's Mines | $6,597,169 | $5,005,788 | 75.9% | $1,591,381 | 24.1% | 1,122 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 3 | One Magic Christmas | $3,803,489 | $2,662,241 | 70% | $1,141,248 | 30% | 824 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Jagged Edge | $2,957,569 | $1,985,710 | 67.1% | $971,859 | 32.9% | 921 | 8 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Back to the Future | $2,623,769 | $1,694,069 | 64.6% | $929,700 | 35.4% | 1,125 | 22 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Once Bitten | $2,582,500 | $2,254,204 | 87.3% | $328,296 | 12.7% | 1,056 | 2 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 7 | Starchaser: The Legend of Orin | $2,298,890 | $1,614,660 | 70.2% | $684,230 | 29.8% | 1,020 | 1 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 8 | To Live and Die in L.A. | $2,007,342 | $1,327,066 | 66.1% | $680,276 | 33.9% | 784 | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 9 | Bad Medicine | $1,765,842 | $1,289,783 | 73% | $476,059 | 27% | 731 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | Target | $1,601,452 | $1,145,746 | 71.5% | $455,706 | 28.5% | 736 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | That Was Then... This Is Now | $1,532,793 | $1,051,881 | 68.6% | $480,912 | 31.4% | 651 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Santa Claus | $1,495,207 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer | $1,411,415 | $1,169,613 | 82.9% | $241,802 | 17.1% | 1,090 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 14 | Transylvania 6-5000 | $1,336,037 | $1,007,324 | 75.4% | $328,713 | 24.6% | 691 | 3 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Commando | $1,281,050 | $867,262 | 67.7% | $413,788 | 32.3% | 924 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 16 | Death Wish 3 | $1,221,957 | $1,021,957 | 83.6% | $200,000 | 16.4% | 742 | 4 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 17 | White Nights | $764,917 | $477,539 | 62.4% | $287,378 | 37.6% | 21 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Subway | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Island Alive | - | false |
| - | Eleni | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Remo: Unarmed and Dangerous | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
